Palou, the 28-year-old Spaniard who won the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, took center stage before the Mets' showdown with the White Sox at Citi Field.

The Indy 500 purse record was broken for the fourth year in a row, with Alex Palou earning $3.8M from a total purse of $20,283,000.

Robert Shwartzman experienced a scary moment during Sunday's Indianapolis 500 when he crashed on pit road, knocking over multiple crew members. The rookie collided in the pit box after completing around 87 laps and his mechanics pushed the vehicle back into the correct positioning. The vehicle hit four crew members and one left on a stretcher.

However, as the IndyStar 's Nathan Brown reported Monday, Daly's Indy 500 was actually quite gross, as he unfortunately faced an in-car challenge many (if not, all) drivers dread: having to go to the bathroom during a race.

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Halfway through the race and as of this writing, eight drivers were out of the race but drivers like Josef Newgarden, seeking his third straight Indy 500 win, and Helio Castroneves, seeking his recording-breaking fifth ever Indy 500 win, were still in the mix.

It looked like Ryan Hunter-Reay might be heading to a second career Indy 500 victory as he was pacing the field past the halfway point of the race. With 30 laps to go, however, he stalled out in the pits and fell all the way to last place among the drivers still out on the track.

Alex Palou entered the Indianapolis 500 as the two-time defending IndyCar champion and has won three of the last four titles. His start to the 2025 season couldn't have gone much better either, as he racked up four wins in the first five races. However, he'd never won the Indianapolis 500 - but ...